Combined cigarette-roller and tobacco-box.



KRONAUERL COMBINED CIGARETTE ROLLER AND TOBACCO BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 00T.28,1909.

Patented Dec. -13, 1910.

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fad/Q UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX KRONAUER, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROGRESS MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Intent.

Application filed October 28, 1909. Serial No. 525,181.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX KRONAUER, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Com-- bined Cigarette-Roller and Tobacco-Box, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanymg drawing.

The object of my invention is to provide a pocket tobacco box combined with an im- -proved automatic cigarette rolling device;

and to attain this end my invention first consists of a suitable box with hingedlid; second in a rolling device attached orfastened to the inside of the box and lid for rolling and forming cigarettes automatically by the closing of the'lid of the box, and also for delivering the same through an opening in the lid; and third in details of construction and arrangement of rollin device which show or expose on the outsi e of the box no parts of the same except one opening in lid,

and of other new and desirable features, as set forth.

My invention will be hereinafter, fully described in detail as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure -1 1s a perspective view of the entire combination with the lid of the box open. Fig. -2 is a transverse section of box and roller arrangement, showing the lid in position 1 entirely opened; in position 2 gradually closing and forming a cigarette; and in position 3 closed and the cigarette delivered. Fig. 3 shows view and transverse section of roller plate and its parts as hereinafter described. Fig. 4 shows roller with bent wire inserted into the same.

-A is the lid hinged to box B.

a is a slot or longitudinal opening in lid -A.

The roller C- is to be formed of paper or other light and pliable material, and revolves around a wire -D which is bent.

and shaped as shown in Fig. 4 The extreme ends of the wire D-- are bent in an outward direction and parallel to the middle portion of the same, and are inserted into eyelet rivets secured or fastened in the side' walls of box B, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and This allows the roller C- to revolve around the middle portion of the wire D and also to rotate around the extreme ends of the latter. The rolling plate -E- is provided with the lateral guide flanges e and one longitudinal rear flange e, which are bent upward or inward, plate E-.

e is a lon 'tudinal slot in rolling plate E, of su cient length and width to allow the parallel passage of a cigarette, and coinciding with slot a in lid -1-A-. Another slot e in rolling plate-E- is running parallel with slot 6 and is of sufficient width to allow the insertion of ribbon -F, which passes from slot 6 over roller C,th nce over rear flange e "thence between rolling plate --E and inside of lid --A- back to slot a to consist referablyof silk or other textile fabric. T e guide flanges e are provided with guide slots e in which the wire -D- travels when lid A- is opened or closed.

To manipulate the cigarette rolling device for forming a cigarette, the lid -A- is 80 2. The wire --D- resting against end opened as shown in Fig. 1- and Fig.

of guide slots 6 holds the lid -A- in posi tion I- Fi --2-. The ribbon -F- is then pressed ownward between roller C and lid A to form an open fold or pocket v A cigarette paper is then moistened a ong one longitudinal edge 'and laid against the ribbon F- so that the moistened edge is placed near and about parallel to slot e while the corresponding lower Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

Ribbon F- is endless and is edge rests in bottom of ppcketl formed by v ribbon F as descri ed. ufiicient tobacco to form a cigarette is then said pocket f and is evenly distributed and packed down below middle of roller .C..

The lid -A- is then gradually closedjand the wire -D which passes throu hguide' slots e is forced forward and wil travel along the varying direction of lthe same.

The roller -O, revolving around the wire D-- carries the ribbon -F alongcin a5.

forward direction and the latter imparts a revolving motion to the. tobacco and the paper in fold f, and thus forms a cigarette. as shown in Fig. --2-,- When the roller -O passes opposite slot a the pocket f placed. into springs, I provide the above a' carefully designed combination of curved and straight lines. When the closing of lid A- is started from position I Fig. -2, the roller -C begins to travel along the downward curve of guide slots 6, and tends to close up the mouth of pocket 7'. The. tobacco is thus gradually compressed,

the pocket f is forced behind the roller C and the increasing distance between roller C and rear flange 6 requires the ribbon portion behind slot 6 and pocket f to travel around the tobacco and overthe roller 'C-. The ribbon F- thus imparts a rolling motion to the tobacco and the paper by friction, and as the roller -C approaches the straight portion of the guide slots 6* the direct distance between roller C and rolling plate -E decreases, and the increasing pressure reduces the diameter of the cylindrical tobacco body and thus increases the rolling velocity as the ribbon F has to travel a shorter way around the forming cigarette. When the roller C finally travels along the straight portion of the guide slots 0, the diameter of the cigarette remains the same, while the rolling motion completes the rolling up of the paper. Instead of continuing the straight portion of the guide slots to the extreme forward end of the same, I provide for another curve in convexity to the former direction in order to relieve the pressure and to prevent the crushing of the cigarette when it is being delivered over the ed e of slot 6 I also provide for contact etween rolling plate -E and that portion of the ribbon F- which extends from slot 6 across slot 0 to the roller C by bringing the extreme end of theguide slots 6* near the foot of the guide flanges e, so that the ribbon F is stretched and tightly seals slot 6 when the lid is closed. The rear flange e I provide for the purpose of raising the ribbon ortion back of the roller C- suiticient y, high to prevent the interference of said ribbon portion with the free formation and traveling of pocket f. 7

It is evident that the ribbon -F could be entered between rolling plate E- and lid A at the edge of slot 0 As, however, the ribbon portion available for. forming pocket f amounts to double the distance from said entrance to the center of the roller C when the lid -A is closed, I prefer to provide slot 6 and thus gain double the distance from slot e to near edge of slot 0 for pocket circumference.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat-- cut, is

1. In a cigarette rolling device, the combination of a box, with hinged lid having an elongated slot through which a cigarette may be delivered, a cigarette rolling and delivering device operativelysecured, and concealed from view, within said box when the same is closed, and means for automatically covering said slot from Within, after the delivery of a cigarette through the same, substantially as set forth.

2. In a cigarette rolling device, the combination of a box body having a lid hinged thereto, with a cigarette rolling and delivering device carried by and between said box and consisting of two detachable parts,

namely, a roller-plate carrying an endlessribbon and a roller mounted to rotate upon a carrying device forming an axis therefor, substantially as set forth.

In a cigarette rolling device the combination with a tobacco box having a hinged lid, of a rolling plate having two opposite guide flanges provided with cam slots, and a rear flange an endless ribbon held by said plate, a roller support and a roller mounted to rotate thereon, substantially as set forth.

4. In a cigarette roll-ing device the coinbination with a box of a plate having two opposite guide flanges provided with cam slots, a roller support passing through said cam slots and forming an axis for a roller and a roller adapted to rotate on said axis substantially as set forth.

5. In a cigarette rolling device thecombination wit-h a box of a roller plate having two opposite flanges provided with cam slots, an endless ribbon held by said plate, a vertical flange on the rear end of said plate to control said ribbon, a roller adapted to rotate upon its axis and such an axis adapted to be moved in and uided by said cam slots substantially as set orth.

6. In a cigarette rolling device, the combination with a tobacco box, of a'roller plate provided with a longitudinal slot, and a rear vertical flange, an endless ribbon passed through said slot and around said plate over the rear flange thereof, and over a roller, so as to form a pocket of the slack of the rib bon between said plate and roller, such a roller suitably mounted to revolve on and rotate with its pivotally'supported axis de vice, side flanges on said roller-plate provided with cam slots adapted to receive the axis of said roller and guide it in its predetermined course, and longitudinal openings in said guide plate and box cover in front of said ribbon slot, substantially as set forth and for the purposes specified.

7. A tobacco box, provided with a hinged lid having an elongated opening adapted to permit the passage of a cigarette therethrough, in combination with means, entirely within said box, adapted to act automatically, upon the lowering of the box-lid, to successively roll tobacco into a cylindrical form, wrap paper around said cylindrically formed tobacco, deliver the cigarette thus formed from the interior of the box through said opening in the box-lid, and to close the said opening on the inside of the lid, after the delivery ofthe cigarette, as aforesaid, substantially as set forth.

8. A tobacco box, provided with a hinged lid having an elongated opening adapted to permit the passage of a cigarette therethrough, in combination with a roller-plate secured to the interior of the lid, said rollerplate having vertical rear and side flanges, a longitudinal slot registering with the elongated opening in the'lid, a ribbon-slot parallel with and adjacent to the first mentioned slot in said roller-plate, and guide-slots in the side flanges of said roller-plate, said guide-slots varying, throughout their len th, 1n distance from the plane of said rol erplate, in combination with a substantially inverted U-shaped roller-carrying-member adapted to pass through said guide-slots and pivotally connected at its extremities within the'box body, a roller preferably of light and pliable material mounted to revolve on said member, between the side flangesof roller-plate, and an endless ribbon passing through said ribbon-slot, in the roller-plate, over said roller, thence over the rear vertical flange ofthe roller-plate, then between the roller-plate and the mside of the lid to sald ribbon-slot, and of such a length as to permit the slackto be carried by the roller to the front portion of the interior of the lid, and over and beyond the parallel openings in the roller-plate and lid, when the box 1s closed, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MAX KRONAUER. Vitnesses JOHN F. KERR,

J ENNE'I'IE PEAL. 

